The Canadian Press: Vietnamese President To Lam serves as Communist party general secretary, making him more powerful than his country’s prime minister. Lam has events scheduled for Thursday with Gov. Gen. Louise Arbour, Prime Minister Mark Carney and parliamentarians.
…“Even though its leadership is very different from Canada, its orientation right now is very much similar to what Canada is trying to do, which is build resilience, diversify partnerships and practise as much autonomy and agency (so as) not to be coerced by any one power,” she said…